The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-01
BRIEF JoTTINcs.

No more Holsters for six weeks to come.
The tug Nettie of New York was in the
harbor Saturday.
There was break in the Congress street
main Saturday. near the India street church.
There were fifty-six arrests last week, of
which thirty were for drunkenness.
The steam pump for Burgess, Fobes & Co..
artesian well has arrived and been set up.
The members of the Wheel Club who par
ticipated in the Quebec tour, returned Satur-
day.
The Maine State band muster will take
place at Greenwood Garden, Aug. oath. 25th,
26th and 9th.
Among the imports last week were 81 300
feet OF lumber and 1863 tons of coal; there
were no exports.
The fresh air fund has sent II children in
to the country, and three more are ready to
60.
The Hayes truck, ordered for the fire de-
partment, is expected today. twill be kept
in the engine house on India street
"a The 3 p. m. train from Boston was delayed
an hour and half Saturday by wheel of
the engine coming off.
pied by Howard Blackstone, has been sold
to Mr.. j. ]. Gilbert.
Jay Gould is on a tour east on his steam
yacht ATLANTA. He will be gone from New
York month or two.
The steam yacht Wanda arrived in the
harbor yesterday, took pilot and left for
the east.
Mr.. III. N. Jose has secured his charter
from the New Hampshire Legislature in re-
gard to the right Of way over Mr. Peavey's
land.
Officer Moseley boarded team near the
Boston Maine depot Saturday evening,
and captured four barrels of ale. The driv-
er ran away when he saw the officer
Yesterday was not the hottest Of the sea-
son, but it was uncomfortably hot. The
mercury touched $40 in places in the shade,
and averaged 80.
AT Cushing's Island, yesterday morning,
at O'Clock, the mercury stood at 1872, four
degrees higher than any other morning this
summer. In the afternoon a cool breeze
sprang up.
1t has been decided, with reference to the
monument at Gettysburg for the Fifth Maine
the base, and add the corps cross and Fifth
Regiment Maine Volunteers" to the back of
the tablet.
1t is about time the city offal carts attend
ed to their business. ut is their duty.to call
twice week at least, but complaint is made
that they don't. Furthermore the carts are
often driven through the streets with the
tops up.
A large stone fell on laborer at work on
the Clark street trench Saturday, and the
ambulance was sent for. The man however,
was not very badly hurt, and was taken
home in a hack before the ambulance ar
rived.
There were five cars In the Maine Central
vestibule train Saturday, one of them occu-
pied by Secretary Whitney's family of Wash
ington. Nineteen. persons from this city
couldn't get seats, and had to wait for the
Flying Yankee.
The new steamer Forest Queen, just built
In New York State for the Forest City
Steamboat Company, arrived in the harbor
about 6 o'clock Saturday afternoon, and is
now lying in the elevator dock. The vessel
was much troubled by the fog on the way
hither
Some strangers, last evening, inquired af-
ter the evening service at the First Parish
church, who the able organist and singers
were, stating that they had heard good mu-
SIC before, but were not often favored with
such exquisite organ playing, in particular
anywhere, even in the great musical centres
Of the country.
Judge Norris, in the United States Circuit
Court at Baltimore, has filed an opinion sus-
tanning two re-issued patents for circular
soldering irons used in Gaping tin cases,
owned by Mr.. Louis McMurray of Balti-
more and Edward Lang and Georse Burn
ham, Jr., of Portland, and decreeing that
the irons of William Miller and Joseph Mill
er of Baltimore, is an Infringement, and tina
the Messrs. Miller must account to complain
ants for profits and-damages.